Archive for February, 2007
Sponsored Post: Multi-Currency support in e-Commerce websites is very important for those looking to target international sales, and many customers during their shopping used to check external currency converters to know the price displayed in their own currency (I personally…
February 28th, 2007 | Posted in New Services, Software, Uncategorized | No Comments
Wall4PHP is one of the framework that I recommend to mobile web application developer for the number of useful information that you may find inside it and related to different models of mobile phones. WALL4PHP is implementation of WALL, Wireless Abstraction Library, originally created by Luca Passani for the Java platform; for PHP. The main purpose of Wall is to generate a generalized markup language which help the web application to be compatible with most available model in the market. Wall is used like a template engine, the sample below for example will show your user agent : My Document UA : Body part 2
February 27th, 2007 | Posted in General, Implementation, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
Greg called for an official referendum on the future of PEAR, you can elect how pear should be run . You, mean anyone who is able to login to the pear.php.net website and and must have “pear.dev” karma. I think this is very important for the future of PEAR, and could change the way how the project work in the future and certainly for the benefit of everyone. There is three resolutions, to keep the PEAR group as is, or choose between Greg Beaver’s constitution and Anant Narayanan’s constitution. This will change the way how decisions are made, decisions such : How should PEAR handle coding standards for PHP 5, PHP 6 and beyond? Who handles acceptance of new packages? What defines quality, and who enforces QA in PEAR
February 24th, 2007 | Posted in Pear, Uncategorized, php, solutions | No Comments
Web Hosting Folio announced its new Pagerank Visualization Tool (PVT) (Visual Pagerank Buttons) is a new way of showing your site’s Google Pagerank with the help of attractive graphical visuals. There are several concept alternatives for your site. By selecting the one that most fits to your site theme and then adding the code to your pages can easily displays the button from the visual set.
February 14th, 2007 | Posted in SEO Tools, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
One of the great pear packages Services_Weather, it offer an easy access to weather services such GlobalWeather from CapeScience, Weather XML from EJSE (US only), a XOAP service from Weather.com and METAR/TAF from NOAA. This is already a great collection !! I used to print some weather reports in some special periods of the year, and it’s one of the annoying task that I was doing before but not anymore ! I decided to implement a weather printing report service and used PEAR Weatherdotcom class to communicate with the webservice more easily. The only problem that the package isn’t well documented, but here is how to proceed for weather forecast.
February 13th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Tutorial, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
WURFL is an open source project which aims to collect information regarding wireless devices’ configurations, capabilities and features. The main scope of this file is to collect as many information as we can about all the existing wireless devices that access WAP pages so that developers will be able to build better applications and better services for the users. Many developers of mobile website know this resource but many don’t know it at all, while I find it very important for mobile application development to know the capabilities of the device so you can better serve content for it. The file is XML formatted about 4.26Mo, you can download a compressed copy from WURFL website .
February 11th, 2007 | Posted in Mobile Experience, Press, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
I used in my code a modified version of Admob code that you can find the original on admob website. The idea that I never use print inside my applications, so i wrote it as a PHP class, the original code is a little bit modified. To use it simply replace $admobs variable with your own and enjoy! /** * Mobile Advertising PHP class * */ class mobileads { var $admobs = ‘a1458adcf8cca66′; /** * Return Admob code – Original code from admob.com * * @param mob_mode change mode from “test” to “live” when you are done testing * @param mob_alternate_link use this to set a default link to appear if AdMob does not return an ad.
February 10th, 2007 | Posted in Advertising, Mobile Advertising, Pear, Uncategorized, php | No Comments
Enhances Artifact Traceability and Reproducibility for a Myriad of Parallel Development Projects Lexington, MA, February 5, 2007 – AccuRev Inc. today announced that Alaska Airlines, one of the largest U.S. airlines and the dominant west coast air carrier, has standardized…
February 10th, 2007 | Posted in Case Studies, Uncategorized | No Comments
Certainly it’s annoying that the operator “link:” never return accurate results in Google search, a good reason for Google to provide an answer for webmasters. Today announced on Google Official blog and Webmaster Central blog a new feature in webmaster tools that let you discover external and internal links to your website with much more comprehensive data which can be classified, filtered, and downloaded. If your site already figures in Webmaster tools and active you can check the “Links” and find all necessary information. Internal links External links
February 6th, 2007 | Posted in SEO Tools, Uncategorized, php, tools | No Comments
SugarCRM released its Open Source version 4.5.1 to public. The new release introduce new and enhanced features, in addition to many bugfixes. New in this edition for the Campaign Management, the Newsletter campaigns, with Wizards, diagnostic tool, and reports. The Module Loader has been enhanced to allow you to download modules and upgrades from Sugar Exchange or from your local drive. You can also download new patches, themes, language packs, and dashlets. This is great to keep your CRM Copy up-to-date, but notice that SugarCRM 4.5.1 still include many bugs for installation, administration, modules and offline client. The Sugar Team is pleased to bring you the generally available (GA) release of Sugar Open Source 4.5.1. SugarCRM is a complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more
February 3rd, 2007 | Posted in SugarCRM, Uncategorized | No Comments